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Moliere

All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing

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